RE: [xml] xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement problem

["James Eggleston" <james eggleston vega de>]

The answers are:

Did this ended up being a bug in libxml2 ? 
Yes, but apparently only our system configuration - we have a problem in xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement when 
strings longer than 8191 chars are written - but everyone else who tried it couldn't recreate the problem... 
hmmm... I can feel the suspicious looks in my direction... :) 

Was that bug fixed ? 
No - it wasn't fixed - I implemented a work around in our code.

Would you still like me to raise the issue on bugzilla? 

James.



-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
Sent: 17 October 2005 17:22
To: James Eggleston
Cc: xml gnome org
Subject: Re: [xml] xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement problem


On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:29:42PM +0200, James Eggleston wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just to follow up my post from last month (I've been on holiday!) regarding a problem with the 
> xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement call causing a seg fault when  writing strings longer than 8191 
> characters... 
>
> * the code provided was just an example to highlight the problem with 8192 bytes - the real code needs to 
> handle longer strings and tidies up after itself
> * the code provided by Alfred Mickautsch worked fine on my machine... so no problem with the vsnprintf() or 
> glibc (probably!)
> * passing 8191 or less bytes worked fine - however the strings being written could be any size, so our code 
> has to be able to handle longer... 
>
> In the end, I altered our code to split any length string up into chunks of a suitable length before saving 
> to disk and reconstitute the original string on reloading. Not ideal, but it worked. 
>
> Many thanks to all those who offered help and spent time investigating the problem... sorry I wasn't able 
> to add anything constructive to the cause. 

  Hum ... I'm unclear, I can't remember clearly ? Did this ended up being
a bug in libxml2 ? Was that bug fixed ? If yes and no then this must be
bugzilla'ed so hopefully this get fixed.

Daniel

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